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If you're wondering how to spend a couple hundred hours of free time this weekend, we have a great option for you: XCOM 2 and its massive expansion War of the Chosen are both free to play on Steam ...

2K and Firaxis have announced the XCOM 2 Collection. Developers Firaxis tweeted last night to confirm the collection is available for download now. Here's what XCOM ...

Update: XCOM 2 has been nominated for IGN's 2016 Game of the Year. There’s an air of white-knuckle desperation about XCOM 2’s post-apocalyptic setting, and it only enhances the tension. Taking place ...

XCOM 2 is one of the all-time greats—a nail-biting tactical strategy game that ruthlessly taught us all the difference between probability and certainty. Remember, missing on a 95% chance shot isn't ...

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XCOM 2's new DLC drop is a brilliant little love letter to the fans - and best of all, it's free. I bloody love XCOM 2. For my money it's one of the best tactical games ever, and so it doesn't exactly ...

It was around the 20-hour mark that I realized I had been playing XCOM 2: War of the Chosen completely wrong. You see, when you’re playing a game for review there’s an urge to see everything. Not in a ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. XCOM Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes! With Earth under alien rule, the XCOM unit ...

XCOM 2 is a lot more mod-friendly than its predecessor, which is great news for people with the time and knowledge required to create their own modifications and content. It’s also highly tweakable, ...

Few tactical shooters stack up to XCOM. The venerable sci-fi series is considered best-in-class for the genre, thanks to a formula calcified in the widely praised XCOM: Enemy Unknown and its equally ...